Can see how this could make a few useful "splash" pages on projects I'm working on now. Just need to prep a video with a proper green screen.
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Definitely have to attribute this to some of the better web APIs that have become standardize over the last 10 years.
While we aren't close to replicating the ease of flash, modern animation techniques have closed the gap considerably.
Also anything to move away from greensock is always a plus in my book.
mulhoon 6 hours ago [-]
Nice work! Haven’t seen anything like this before. It makes me happy that people do stuff like this. Small experiments often open up big new design ideas.
zhxiaoliang 5 hours ago [-]
Thank you! This can make it quite easy to create demos like those “dragon swimming through text” animations that became popular recently. I had no idea what other real-world applications we could use it for, but it was fun to be able to do it, LOL.
iku 8 hours ago [-]
I have no idea what this is about. I see no stick figure or anything interactive, when I open this on my iPhone. I’d does say Idle below the reset button though. To make things worse, if you scroll down, you can’t scroll back to page top. I assume the main area intercepts the touch events, blocking scrolling…
zhxiaoliang 7 hours ago [-]
LOL sorry my bad. Should have been more specific. It’s a demo of my layout library. The stick figure is made with a few primitives to form a so-called exclusion assembly which causes texts to flow around them. But what’s unique about it is that these primitive parts can be controlled independently via programmatic control. This turns them into a little rig essentially. I thought it was funny and could be even useful so I shared it.
zhxiaoliang 6 hours ago [-]
It's strange that happened. I had no issue loading it on my iPhone 16e in Safari or Chrome... Could it be somehow your browser prevent Javascript from loading?
ThrowawayTestr 7 hours ago [-]
Whenever a web page doesn't work I try a different browser. You can do that on an iPhone right?
zhxiaoliang 6 hours ago [-]
I did not make the demo specifically for mobile browsers, but it does work rather well on my iPhone 16e with Safari and Chrome. I also tried it on my Pixel 10 and did not encounter any issues. The library itself is tiny ~250K so it should load right away.
tlarkworthy 6 hours ago [-]
It kills drag scroll over the flow text on my android
stavros 4 hours ago [-]
It works on my Android phone with Vivaldi, though I need to be careful because the text doesn't allow me to scroll
https://cosmiciron.github.io/layoutmaster/dancing-text.html
Can see how this could make a few useful "splash" pages on projects I'm working on now. Just need to prep a video with a proper green screen.
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Definitely have to attribute this to some of the better web APIs that have become standardize over the last 10 years.
While we aren't close to replicating the ease of flash, modern animation techniques have closed the gap considerably.
Also anything to move away from greensock is always a plus in my book.